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Khamenei rejects Trump offer of talks, chides govt over economy

ANKARA, Aug 13 (Reuters): Iran's Supreme Leader on Monday rejected US President Donald Trump's offer of unconditional talks to improve bilateral ties and he also accused the Iranian government of economic mismanagement in the face of reimposed US sanctions.Washington reimposed the sanctions last week after pulling out of a 2015...

Newly-elected Pak parliament meets for first time

ISLAMABAD, Aug 13 (AP): Pakistan's newly-elected parliament convened Monday for the first time since last month's general elections which saw former cricket star turned politician Imran Khan's party win most seats, propelling him toward the post of the country's next prime minister.The lawmakers were sworn in at a brief ceremony...

100 security forces perish in fight for Afghan city

KABUL, Aug 13 (AFP): At least 100 Afghan security forces have been killed as troops backed by US airpower struggled to push the Taliban from embattled Ghazni city, officials said Monday, while residents reported food and medicine shortages four days after fighting began.The Afghan government said it had sent reinforcements...

Two Korean leaders to meet in Pyongyang in September

SEOUL, Aug 13 (Reuters): North and South Korea agreed on Monday to hold a summit in the North in September, another step towards boosting cooperation between the old rivals, even as doubts grow over efforts to end the North's nuclear weapons programme.Officials from both sides meeting in the truce village...

Mahathir aims to scrap China deals

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 13 (AP): Malaysia's prime minister said Monday he will seek to cancel multibillion-dollar Chinese-backed infrastructure projects that were signed by his predecessor as his government works to dig itself out of debt, and he blasted Myanmar's treatment of its Rohingya minority as "grossly unjust."Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad made...

US white nationalist rally sputters in sea of counter-protesters

WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Agencies): A white nationalist rally in the heart of Washington drew two dozen demonstrators and thousands of chanting counterprotesters on Sunday, the one-year anniversary of racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.A large police presence kept the two sides separated in Lafayette Square, in front of the White...

Ex-Lok Sabha speaker Somnath dies at 89

KOLKATA, Aug 13 (AP): Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passed away at a private hospital on Monday morning following multiple organ failure. He was 89 years old.Chatterjee passed away at around 8:15 am after his condition deteriorated following Sunday's "mild heart attack", said a hospital official from Belle Vue...

Death toll in Syria blast climbs to 69

BEIRUT, Aug 13 (Reuters): The number of people killed when an explosion ripped through a building thought to be storing weapons in rebel-held northwestern Syria has climbed to 69 including 17 children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday.The explosion happened in a residential building in the town...

Nine die in Taiwan hospital fire

NEW TAIPEI CITY, Aug 13 (Reuters): A fire at a hospital in Taiwan killed nine people on Monday and injured 15 and an investigation has been launched into the cause of the blaze, authorities said.Premier William Lai said the health ministry was overseeing rescue efforts at the hospital in New...

Newspaper defends Xinjiang Muslim crackdown

BEIJING, Aug 13 (AP): An official Communist Party newspaper is defending China's campaign of pressure and internment against the country's Uighur Muslim minority, saying it had prevented the far-northwestern region of Xinjiang from "becoming 'China's Syria' or 'China's Libya.'"Monday's Global Times editorial comes after a U.N. anti-discrimination committee raised concerns...

News in Brief (14-08-2018)

Ex-White House staffer releases tape of her firingWASHINGTON, Aug 13: A former White House staffer who has written a bombshell memoir of her time serving under President Donald Trump released a secret tape Sunday of the chief of staff firing her. Omarosa Manigault Newman said she decided to release the...